Inside Steve's Brain

Lots have been written about Steve Jobs and Apple. Leander Kahney’s book, though, runs the full gamut on sharing the business mindset that drives Jobs and drives Apple to succeed. You’ll learn insights into developing new products, designing the customer experience, fostering an innovation spirit, hiring top talent, and sharing passion to “… put a ding in the universe.”

It’s a worthy read.

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Joshua Prince-Ramus: Designing the Seattle Central Library

With beautiful visualizations, architect Joshua Prince-Ramus deconstructs the collaborative process of building the Seattle Public Library, hailed by critics as one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. Watch the YouTube video above [20:43] http://www.ted.com With beautiful visualizations, architect Joshua Prince-Ramus deconstructs the collaborative process of building the Seattle Public Library, hailed by critics as one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. He also offers a sneak preview of his works in progress (The Wyly Theater in Dallas and Museum Plaza in Louisville, Kentucky). Prince-Ramus is principal of REX (Ramus-Ella Architects), and was previously U.S. Director of Rem Koolhaas's Office of Metropolitan Architecture. (Recorded February, 2006 at the TED Conference in Monterey, CA.) More TEDTalks at www.TED.c

Innovation and Control

Navigating the complicated space between creativity and control in medical device design.

Luke Wroblewski on Web Form Design

Check out the podcast, where Luke answers a variety of questions such as:

• Why web form design is important.

• If form design is everywhere and easy, why are there so many bad forms?

• What are some of the common mistakes web form designers make?

• What are the Top 3 tips for improving web forms?

Inspirational PDF Magazines

Numerous visual arts publications from around the world are available for you to draw inspiration from. PDF magazines serve as excellent sources of both conceptual and visual.

Meet the real Iron Man

While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a fantasy with the XOS Exoskeleton.

Using the tools of design to solve business problems creatively

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Forest Fire Clear Cut Robot

The forest fire prevention robot by Jordan Guelde is an advanced robot designed to clear large areas of foliage from around a forest fire to help stop the flames from spreading.

Revolutionary Minds

Design & Architecture. Read Seeds first online Revolutionary Minds which feature profiles thinkers from the forefront of science-inspired design and architecture.

The tallest building in the world and still growing

When complete next year the Burj Dubai will stretch half a mile into the sky over the United Arab Emirates, taller than three Canary Wharf towers balanced on top of each other.

The 36th International Exhibition of Invention

More than 700 exhibitors, from 45 countries, are presenting at the 36th International Exhibition of Invention – the world's largest expo devoted to innovation. Here we present a selection of the inventors and their contraptions.

Longhand goes digital

The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen turns a sheet of paper into a computer interface. Write down an equation, and the solution appears on the pen's screen. The pen has a built-in audio speaker: record a lecture, and by tapping the pen on a line from a page of handwritten notes, you can call up the corresponding section of the recording. The pen's computational features work so long as the user writes on paper printed with a special pattern, which is read by camera's in the pen's tip.

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The Little Engines That Would

These new vehicles are zippy and green, but are American drivers ready for cute?

10 trends that will define logo design in 2008

It's important to be at the center of all design trends, because most clients want to be at the hype. And the hype for trends right now are pretty cool. Some have been out there for some time now, and others are somewhat new. Check it out.

A Futuristic Mobile Device Mockup

The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.

10 (More) Pieces of Clever Transforming Furniture: From Tetris Tables to Rooms in a Box

Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress?

Building the Perfect Laptop

The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops.

Cutting Edge Designers

If you want to see what’s really hot in design, check out this new series on the Innovation & Design channel on Cutting Edge Designers.

Function Dysfunction

Allison Arieff, the former Editor in Chief of Dwell magazine, is Senior Content Lead for the design and innovation firm IDEO. In this article she discusses that in the never-ending quest to provide consumers with the newest, fastest, sleekest and most-highly-functioning-est stuff, technology companies (and their designers and engineers and marketers) often lose sight of the original purpose of the thing they are selling — not to mention the environmental and functional impacts.